by Len Fisher | 9 Oct 2018 | Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing
I just came across a link to a segment of the BBC Radio 4 programme “More or Less”, where I debated with Simon Singh the value of equations in the media. “Debated” is really not the right word, since we were on the same side when it came to the...
by Len Fisher | 14 Feb 2015 | Mini Stories from Science
Valentine’s day, 2015: According to legend, the three saddest mathematical love stories concerned the tangent lines who had just one chance to meet, and then parted forever; the asymptotes who became ever closer but could never get together; and the parallel...